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Shoal Creek Living History Museum, Kansas City; Montana. Daniels County Museum & Pioneer Town, Scobey; Nevada City Living History Museum, Virginia City; New Hampshire. Fort at Number 4, Charlestown; Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth; New Jersey. Allaire Village, Wall Township; Historic Cold Spring Village, Cape May; Longstreet Farm, Holmdel Township ...
In the 1940s Charles and Sue Bovey began to buy up abandoned buildings and restoring them, in effect creating an open-air museum.[3] The landmark district encompasses an area of about 20,000 acres (81 km2), including the entire city limits of Virginia City and a significant portion of Alder Gulch where mining operations took place.
The ghost town of Virginia City began to be restored for tourism in the 1950s. The Boveys operated the town as an open-air museum complete with artifacts and living history enactments. Of the nearly 300 structures in town, almost half were built before 1900.
Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman. This list of museums in Montana encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
This list of museums in Hawaii contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public ...
Hawaii: This village was destroyed via the 1801 Huʻehuʻe flow. [17] Kealakomo: 1864 Hawaii: The town was likely destroyed and abandoned after the 1868 earthquake and tsunami, then buried by the Mauna Ulu flows of 1969-1974. [18] Keomuku Village: 1950s Maui: Population moved to Lanai City, following the failure of the Maunalei Sugar Company [19]
Bannack, a Montana ghost town. This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Montana.. A ghost town is a town or city which has lost all of its businesses and population. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as a flood, government action, uncontrolled lawlessness, or war.
The Montana Ghost Town Preservation Society, founded in 1969 by then-professor of architectural history at Montana State University John N. Dehaas Jr., [1] is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public to the benefits of preserving historic buildings, [2] sites, and artifacts that make up the living history of Montana. [3]